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The Wrist Test — on the love that kept happening after its reason ended

20 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam

She still runs the inside of her wrist under the shower water before I step in, waiting for it to stop feeling like anything at all. That's how she knows it's ready. I stopped needing her to do this a long time ago. Three years, maybe four. I have ne...

Distance — realizing you are now fluent in your parent's unspoken language

31 Jul 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam

The night I understood I wouldn't be going back—not to the house, not to the country, not to the version of myself that still believed home was a place you could return to—I didn't pack anything important. I packed the kettle. An old one, with a dent...

What Crypto Does to Your Relationships — And Why Nobody Talks About It

12 Jun 2026 7 minute read 4 comments Cloudy12

The argument was not really about crypto. That is the thing nobody tells you going in. The fights that crypto eventually starts in your life are almost never actually about blockchain technology or investment theses or whether a particular coin has g...

The Lost Art of Written Seduction: Word Porn

17 May 2026 4 minute read 1 comment MMAPMagazine

Written by Michaelson Williams, author of The Legacy Wife – Playground Dating Theories, YOU ARE ILLUMINATI, and more. Seduction Beyond Looks, Status, and Surface-Level Desire In my experience word porn can work on any woman, and can easily be shifted...

The MichaelsonEffect: Why You Keep Choosing the Wrong Women, part two

4 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments MMAPMagazine

Subtitle: The hard truth: if you’re not a High Value Man, you won’t recognize a High Value Woman—even if she’s right in front of you By Michaelson Williams, TSX, author of YOU ARE ILLUMINATI, Trainwashing: The Secrets of Positive Brain Washing, True...

Can’t Find a High Value Woman? Become a High Value Man, p1.

4 Apr 2026 6 minute read 0 comments MMAPMagazine

Subtitle: The Truth About Masculinity, Modern Dating, and Why Most Men Settle for Less By Michaelson Williams, TSX, author of YOU ARE ILLUMINATI, Trainwashing: The Secrets of Positive Brain Washing, True Success Naturally, The Legacy Wife, and more…...

#149 🔸 Rediscovering meaning through moments of reflection

22 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

Sometimes, after you have taken apart a difficult thought and looked at it from every angle, a strange quiet remains. It is not quite peace, but more a sense of space. Today’s theme grows out of that space. We live in a culture of quick reactions. We...

#94 🔸 The comparison trap: the psychology of envy

17 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

After reflecting on how beliefs shape our inner world, I realised how often we evaluate ourselves through filters that do not belong to us. One of the strongest of these filters is comparison. Even if it seems harmless or automatic, comparison influe...

#89 🔸 Understanding sadness and the art of accepting it

14 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

Sometimes, when you review what you wrote the day before, you realise that certain themes remain open. That happened to me now as well, noticing that the discussion about emotional vulnerability naturally leads to another question: what do we do with...

#88 🔸 Why emotional ignorance makes us vulnerable

13 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

Starting from the idea that many mechanisms of happiness work quietly in the background, I realised how easily we overlook our own emotions. A kind of inner blindness that we excuse with “no time”, “it doesn't matter”, “it will pass”. In reality, ign...